OLDFIELD, William (1623-64), of Elsham, Lincs.

Family and Education

b. 1 July 1623,Gatton par. regs. ed. W.B. Bannerman (1908), 6. 1st s. of Sir Samuel Owfeild*, Fishmonger, of Covent Garden, Westminster, and Upper Gatton, Surr. and Katherine (d. 1664), da. and h. of William Smith, Mercer, of Thames Street, London.Manning, Bray, Surr. ii. 245. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 1639.Al. Cant. m. (1) 13 Nov. 1655, Mary, da. and h. of Maurice Thomson, merchant, of Mile End Green, Mdx. 2s.;Reg. of St Dionis Backchurch (Harl. Soc. Regs. iii), 31; PROB11/315/444. (2) lic. 13 May 1662, Anne, da. of William Hawkins of Mortlake, Surr. s.p. suc. fa. bef. 4 May 1643.J. Sykes, ‘St Mary’s, Hull’, Yorks. Arch. Jnl. xii. 468. bur. 9 Oct. 1664 9 Oct. 1664.St Katherine Cree, London, par. reg.

Offices Held

Local: commr. defence of Lincs. 3 Apr. 1645; assessment, Lincs. 6 Aug. 1645, 23 June 1647; Lincs. (Lindsey) 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr. 1649; Surr. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 1 June 1660, 1661;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 25 June 1646, 26 Apr. 1649–d.;Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/7–12; C181/7, pp. 77, 261. Hatfield Chase Level 14 July 1664. Mar. 1647 – bef.Jan. 1650C181/7, p. 280. J.p. Lindsey, Mar. 1660–d.;C231/6, p. 81. Surr. Mar. 1660–d.HP Commons 1660–1690. Commr. Lincs. militia, 3 July 1648;LJ x. 359a. sequestration, Surr. 18 Oct. 1648; militia, Lincs., Surr. 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, Lindsey 1660; subsidy, Lindsey, Surr. 1663.SR.

Religious: elder, Reigate classis, Feb. 1648.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 434.

Parlimentarian

OLDFIELD (OWFIELD), William (1623-64), of Elsham, Lincs.

: of Elsham, Lincs.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

OLDFIELD, William (1623-64), of Elsham, Lincs.

Will

3 Dec. 1663, cod. 8 Oct. 1664, pr. 16 Dec. 1664.PROB11/315/444.

Estates

Sir Samuel Owfeild left his whole estate to wid. Katherine for life; bef. 4 Mar. 1663 she conveyed Samuel’s inheritance (i.e. excluding land purchased at Chipstead, Surr. and elsewhere) to William, together with ‘a great part also of my own inheritance’;PROB11/192/365 (Samuel Owfeild); PROB11/315/229. Dec. 1663 William had lands in north Lincs. (inc. parsonage of Elsham), Surr., and City and suburbs of London; awaiting payment of £2,000 portion with second wife.PROB11/315/444.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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